Silver Spring Scene News Round Up
By Silver Springer • Dec 29th, 2006 • Category: Uncategorized
â–º More Downtown Silver Spring bashing, this time from a blog called Rethink College Park. That would be one of last places I would think would have the audacity to critic any place. There’s enough rethinking of College Park for the both of us.
â–º The Silver Bee steps back in time with this article about local businesses that have survived the years in Silver Spring and those that didn’t. There is another world of retail hiding at the fringes of CBD. From old businesses like Ertter’s Market by the old Blair High School to new ones like Tiramisu on Eastern Ave.
â–º While D.C. mayor-elect Adrian Fenty insults the Silver Spring Gateway signs and D.C. residents feel little to no rapport with Maryland. The Lofts@Brightwood on Georgia Avenue in NW D.C. has no problem using downtown Silver Spring as a marketing tool to push condo sales.
â–º Tabi Bonney was spotted performing at the Gallery Restaurant and Lounge a few weeks ago. The D.C. artist is working his way up to national level status.
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I find it interesting that one of their listed attractions in their “enjoy the neighborhood” section is Walter Reed. Who really enjoys Walter Reed?
Downtown Silver Spring is quite a trek up Georgia Ave from that location too.
To credit Walter Reed they do have that museum of medical oddities.
Adrian Fenty makes fun of the Silver Spring gateway markers? Give me a break! Sure, the teal is a little gaudy, but has HE SEEN the new “Welcome to DC” sign on 16th just south of Colesville Rd?
Talk about cheap and flimsy. It is anything but substantial and a 3rd grader must have picked out the fonts/colors. Gee, for our nation’s capital, one would think they could have at least chosen a professional sign company and/or graphic designer. Instead, Fenty’s gateway looks worse than a Wal-Mart sign (not to mention the hodgepodge landscaping done in the circle.
What I don’t understand is why they replaced the nice sign they used to have with the crappy one woodsider refers to. They used to have one in the circle that had a nice picture of multi-colored rowhouses. Why did they get rid of it?
not quite a lead: In and Out for MoCo: 2007 Edition.
Walter Reed is home of the most interesting museum EVER. When my sister and I were little, our teenage baby sitter told us stories of the “Gross Museum”. My Dad asked if we’d really like to see the “Gross Museum” and took us to Army pathology museum at Walter Reed. It was open to the public then. My sister and I were totally engrossed by the displays, but poor old Dad seemed rather queasy the whole time. Civil War surgical instruments, jars and jars of sections of various organs, examples of disease conditions. They even had displays of human hairballs, which Dad used as an object lesson as to why we shouldn’t let our hair get into our mouths. When we reached the aisle of deformed fetuses, Dad insisted we head home.
My sister and I wanted to go back there, but Dad wouldn’t take us.